Do i have to synchronize the Time manually? Or what have i to do, if the PC-time is different from the eBay-Time?.Will JBidwatcher still work? What can I do to make it go away? I'm getting a CAPTCHA (a small graphic with words, letters, or numbers on a complex background) prompt whenever I log in to eBay through my web broswer.Where is the context menu? I cannot find it.I received an 'unknown error' bidding or sniping on an item? What happened?.How do I look at JBidwatcher's error logs?.Under the 'current' tab I can't see anything, and under the 'complete' tab, I can see the time/date listed in the left column but that's it. I've recently lost all visibility to my auctions.What means, if my eBay name (in the right top corner) is cancelled?.How do I get items into JBidwatcher from Safari?.Why aren't you responding to my email? Is JBidwatcher still supported?.It all made sense to me as I built it, but when it’s all together it’s…obviously not sufficient. Updating your login cookie changes the hover text, because it’s a successful network operation, but only a successful listing retrieval can clear the strikeout. (Not being logged in is usually is shown by a red login status icon, and ‘Not logged in…’ in the username space.) It doesn’t mean you’re not logged in, just that it thinks eBay might be down. (God I suck at user-facing UI paradigms JBidwatcher’s UI needs a serious overhaul.) The strikeout there meant that it tried to read an auction, and got the ‘temporarily unavailable’ message. If the username and time are struck out, it means it’s having trouble talking to eBay. You don’t need to worry about it at that point. If the login status is green, it’s logged you in. ![]() The time, the username, and the icon which indicates login status. The login status display in the upper right has three distinct components. If you’re seeing: “eBay (or the link to eBay) appears to be down for the moment.”, it means that eBay responded to an item-view attempt with the very specific message: “Our Site is Temporarily Unavailable”. I’d need to see your logs for the steps you took, to see exactly what’s caused JBidwatcher to believe the login failed, but that message is VERY specific. The deletion issue is resolved, though, I’m pretty sure of that. I added the database, and several other features, to bring it up to a level that I was comfortable developing at, but the interface between the old all-in-memory code and the new as-much-as-possible-in-database code is still admittedly shaky. It didn’t support large auction sets, it was terribly factored, it was really, really frustrating to code on. :) The older version was a nightmare to manage, mainly. JBidwatcher is actually a heavily multi-threaded program, and the number of threading issues (left) in it are surprisingly few. I thought I’d fixed the delete problem in 2.1pre8, actually. That’s a broken computer, in my opinion, and so I don’t believe that’s the problem for most folks, and thus the ‘sync’ solution may seem right, but it’s not actually addressing the underlying problem. It means that in the 5 minutes left from the sync, your clock will drift by (on average) about 11 seconds. I’ve always resisted the ‘synch 5 minutes before snipe’, because if your clock is drifting 1-2 minutes every 40 minutes, JBidwatcher isn’t going to be able to adjust for that sanely. They made the point that this could be skewed by abnormally long startup times for the network request, and that it might be more accurate to check time drift by grabbing a time snapshot after the request for the time page has returned. One interesting report I got recently pointed out that I’m checking time drift between before I start the network request, and the time that eBay shows when the request comes back.on completion they don’t move from the current tab), but it shouldn’t be. I’ll poke at the completed auction handling for My eBay searches it’s possible that it’s marking them as sticky (i.e.Let’s see if I can roughly respond to your questions… ![]() I’ve been heavily occupied with trying to find a new job, so I haven’t been doing much JBidwatcher development lately. ![]() Yes, sorry, I skimmed them, and didn’t notice the request to remove your email.
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